Today, we have an event where several groups will be going back to back giving presentations.

Time is of essence, so we’ll have to tend the clock closely. The question is how to do it so that each presenter can be aware of it and not get the gag-music as they do at the Oscars.

We won’t have or need the music cue, but a countdown timer would be nice so they are not caught off guard.

Here’s a neat web-based countdown (or count up) timer that is also able to go full screen. So all we need is a laptop in the room and we should all be ok.

The site is clean and intuitive for both counting up (stop watch function) and counting down.  Below is a walk-through of the simple steps to getting it to work. . .

The max is 99 HOURS of counting down.  That’s a couple of days worth of waiting!  But for our own use, we set it for a 7 minute countdown. . . Read the rest of this entry »